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Jack White Complete Lyrics and Selected Writing collects lyrics from The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, his solo recordings, and collaborations, including the Grammy nominated 2024 album NO NAME.Presented as a full‑color hardcover companion to The White Stripes Complete Lyrics, this volume pairs the songs with never‑before‑published poems, essays, social posts, and personal notes, plus exclusive photographs and rare ephemera from the Third Man archives. Essays by Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, award‑winning filmmaker and writer dream hampton, and Third Man Records co‑founder Ben Blackwell add fresh perspective on White’s craft, career, and the experiences that shaped him.

I AM AN EYE I DON'T KNOW WHY is Wayne Coyne's (Flaming Lips founder and frontperson) first children's book. All sixty-eight pages are original art and story by Coyne. I AM AN EYE is an unusual and endearing look at a young person finding their identity. Eyes, ears, nose, and mouth are literally separated and must find each other to help their face win a bike race. The two ears, two eyes, nose and mouth realize they are better off together, especially now they have become friends who can help each other see, hear, and steer. In the tradition of Dr. Seuss and the wonderful, wubbulous psychedelic music of the Flaming Lips, I AM AN EYE I DON'T KNOW WHY is an original and very funny look at the togetherness of self.

Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced African American culture when dominant society abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. We’re all familiar with the stars’ stories, but It Came From Memphis runs with the the kids in that first rock and roll audience, where they befriended the older blues artists, the travails of blazing a rock and roll career path where one had not existed (nor did society welcome it), and the adventures—sometimes drug-fueled, often accidental, always pushing the envelope—that epitomize the rock and roll experience. Stars pass through—Elvis, Aretha, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is on the singular achievements of Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. Music liberated that Memphis audience, and the world followed.

An unpretentious, effective profile by an author unafraid to voice her own opinions. In 1966 a young singer-songwriter drives an old battered hearse 2000 miles from Canada to L.A to seek his fortune. Sixty years later he is still making music, the survivor of an astonishing career that has taken in the Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Crazy Horse, numerous collaborations and a staggering number of albums. Written by the legendary rock writer Sylvie Simmons, it was first published in 2001 as part of a series of compact books on the greatest musicians of our time, commissioned by MOJO, the UK's leading music magazine. Based on new interviews Simmons that conducted with Young's friends, fellow musicians and Young himself, the book is packed with insights into his life and work - family, health issues and behind-the-scenes relationships, including a brief friendship with Charles Manson - that still remain relevant all these years on. The new edition comes with four new chapters, containing some fascinating, unfiltered interviews Simmons did with Young.

"Possibly the greatest-ever song about childhood BFFs.” — Entertainment Weekly "We're Going to be Friends" is one of The White Stripes most enduring and loved songs. With the help of illustrator Elinor Blake, the perennial favorite feels right at home on the page as a children's book. Join Suzy Lee as she goes to school with her books and pens, looks for bugs, shows and tells, and finds a friend.“Jack White has written a perfect story and Elino Blake's art is enchanting. It harkens back to 1940s Golden Books. Read it while listening to either Jack or Elinor sing the story. It’s a sonic/optic treat.” — John Kricfalusi, creator The Ren and Stimpy Show"It’s back to school! Walk with Suzy Lee and her new friend. In hues of red, black and white with nods to classic animation and mid-century picture books, Elinor Blake creates an enchanted vision for Jack White’s gentle story of new friendship.”—Nina Crews, author The Neighborhood Mother Goose.In my favorite picture books text and art feel like they were conceived as one. This book has that quality. The text is the lyrics from the wonderful, now classic song "We're Going To Be Friends" by Jack White. In place of sound and music we have Elinor Blake's pictures. These images surprise and delight and have a genuine and rare timelessness, I can easily visualize this charming creation sitting snug between books by Robert McCloskey and Garth Williams on any bookshelf both past and present. — Tony Fucile, animator The Lion King, Finding Nemo

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots [Special Edition] is a hardcover book signed by its author, illustrator, and Flaming Lips frontperson, Wayne Coyne. Coyne decided now was the time to definitively tell the tale of Yoshimi’s struggle versus the Pink Robots and quest for love and greater understanding! The 420 page full color book brings to life the Flaming Lips seminal record of the same name.

Follow the untold story of how one of America's greatest companies changed our culture and our music with their unorthodox devices.In 1968, Mike Matthews founded Electro-Harmonix (EHX) and began assembling a worldwide team of the most talented engineers, creatives, and musicians he could find — people who would create imposing metal boxes with odd names that changed the sound and attitude of music forever. But the story of Electro-Harmonix is far more than the story of a company and its products. It's a testament to what can happen when someone trusts the people around them to do their best work.Made On Earth For Rising Stars: The Electro-Harmonix Story is the definitive visual history — a historic collaboration between EHX, JHS Pedals, Third Man Books, and archivist Daniel Danger. This massive book explores everything from Mike Matthews himself to the workers on the floor, from circuit designers to those seeking to cure death, from flying machines to mass ESP experiments. Experience never-before-seen relics, prototypes, documents, photos, and stories. Featuring exclusive interviews with Jack White, J Mascis, John Mayer, Wes Borland, Billy Corgan, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Adrien Belew, Vernon Reid, and more.

CAR MA is artist and musician Alison Mosshart’s first printed collection ofpaintings, photographs, short stories, and poetry. It is a book about cars, rock n’roll, and love. It’s a book about America, performance, and life on the road. It’s abook about fender bender portraiture, story tellin' tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood.​Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. AndAmerica’s highways- the last great roller coasters. Shows us that the engine onfire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation ofwalking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in acar without brakes. She ruminates that automobiles- with their doors and mirrorsand windows, engines and wheels and radios- portray us. Mirror our need to bein or to exit, our inward reflections and outward visions, our lifetimes of tinkeringwith the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn’t. Throughout history thecar has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it isalso a symbol of our subsequent spinning out… over things we never thoughtcould happen during a song that fucking good with the volume up that fuckingloud.If you’ve ever found yourself feeling holy, pulling out of the gas station with a fulltank, like the last beautiful free soul on this planet- This book is for you. In fact it’sprobably about you.

"A major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist.” — Ursula K. LeGuinCarol  Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, China Miéville, Connie Willis, and numerous others. Moon Songs is the first one-volume selection from Emshwiller’s entire career, with stories from 1958 to 2012. Another admirer, Kelly Link, wrote the collection's foreword. It is unsurprising that Emshwiller, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, two Nebula Awards, a Philip K. Dick Award, and a Pushcart Prize, is so respected by her fellow writers and avid fans. What is surprising is that her work has not enjoyed more widespread success and notoriety. There are so many who still have not experienced the joy of her engrossingly odd narrators, hyper-original imagery, and unguessable plot twists in stories such as "Moon Songs," "Creature", "Mrs. Jones," "I Live with You and You Don’t Know It,"and "The Bird Painter in Time of War." Moon Songs selects a representative sample of stories from every era of Emshwiller's work, providing readers new and old with a guidebook to a unique vision and feminist voice. Wry and ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking, poignant and poetic, these tales stand as testament to the vivid imagination of an original and uncompromising writer.

"Stucky's verse has the power of the best East European poets--some of his poems seem to be perfect, magnificent, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker."--Bill Knott "The yearning in these poems is awash in dense, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mishandling of promises and breakable bonds."--apt The Truth Is We Are Perfect contains fifty-four lyrics exploring the loss of oneself through the loss of an other, and how we seek to recreate ourselves in that absence. Stucky journeys into nothingness and, consequently, into awareness. His meditative sensibilities and minimalist style create ritualized poems acting as spells--transcribed to be read aloud and performed in the service of realizing that which we seek to become: "Because I love a burning thing / I made my heart a field of fire." Janaka Stucky is the publisher of Black Ocean as well as the annual poetry journal Handsome. He is the author of two chapbooks: Your Name Is The Only Freedom, and The World Will Deny It For You.His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fence and North American Review, and his articles have been published by the Huffington Post and the Poetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted "Boston's Best Poet" in the Boston Phoenix.

Described by some as "erotica for feminists," and "enemy to family values," DeColo's poems convulse with desire and a longing for connection. Her work speaks to the particular loneliness of watching Fox News after you've masturbated too many times, depleted and filled with fascination and terror. Balancing tenderness with ferocity, cynicism with wonder, DeColo's poems disrupt and reclaim misogynistic language, creating a lyricism that dazzles and swoons, hoping to leave a stain deep enough to last. "The poems in Kendra DeColo's extraordinary second collection, My Dinner With Ron Jeremy, live in the sinuous space between want and propriety, fantasy and the 'Must Be 18' button on the poetry portal. There's love here, too, and John Coltrane, and abandonment in all its necessary circumstances, but sex is both brilliant talisman and vacant harbinger through it all. This often humorous, always provocative book puts a neon backlight on the filaments between what we have, what we have to do, and what we wish we could do, whether we can rewind and watch it again or not. "--Adrian Matejka, Author of The Big Smoke, a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. "Marvelous poetry ...poems that would make great feature films."--Ron Jeremy, Actor "Sex-positive feminist verse...DeColo manages to coax beauty and meaning from the absurd aching morass of human existence. It's not every writer who can emerge from these corners with anything approaching grace, much less deft and bracing poems such as these."--The Nashville Scene "[DeColo's] work is ferocious and tender, demolishing patriarchal language and using the fragments to build riotous new worlds."--Bitch Magazine

"Salaam treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your preconceptions and leave you breathless with their beauty."--Nalo Hopkinson, Author of the Nebula nominated novel The New Moon's Arms Kiini Ibura Salaam's short stories (and the characters who inhabit them) are vital, fantastic in all senses of the word, audacious and tender."--Kelly Link, author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated collection Get In Trouble In this eagerly-awaited collection, Kiini Ibura Salaam continues her exploration of the dark, the sensual, and the mysterious with fiction that disturbs, delights, and dazzles. The five stories and one novella collected in When the World Wounds examine the tumultuous nature of the human condition through such wild imaginings as sensual encounters with deer, escapism in a dystopic prison, and volcano women. In "The Taming," a lupine creature is trapped by beasts whose nefarious nature is beyond their prey's understanding. In "Hemmie's Calenture," a woman escaping enslavement is thrust into a war between gods."The Pull of the Wing" is the prequel to Salaam's wildly popular Of Wings, Nectar, and Ancestors trilogy. "Because of the Bone Man" transports readers to the desolate landscape of post-Katrina New Orleans and the struggle of the city's culture bearers to carry on. A welcome follow-up to Salaam's award-winning Ancient, Ancient, When the World Wounds is perceptive and engaging as it examines our world's callous and perilous landscapes while tickling the imagination and startling the senses. "Kiini Ibura Salaam is a natural-born storyteller and a gorgeous writer who chooses her characters and words with the care and skill of a poet. Her stories are transformative, wise and vivid with the quality of fantasy and fable. I loved reading this!"--Sherre Renee Thomas, Editor of the World Fantasy Award winning anthology Dark Matter: Reading the Bones "Salaam's collection...introduces readers to alternate worlds built around magic, sensuality, sexuality, and the search for emotional comfort, however tenuous...Salaam's unusual settings and lonely characters will call to readers who hunger for sex, identity, or just a place to belong."--Publishers Weekly Kiini Ibura Salaam's first collection Ancient, Ancient (Aqueduct Press, 2012) won the James Tiptree Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

A heartfelt children's tale describing the beauty of friendship. Includes unreleased music from musician and producer Ikey Owens (Mars Volta, Jack White). "Read The Magic of We, and your heart will expand with joy." — Juan Alderete de la Peña, The Mars Volta "Have you ever met the missing piece to your puzzle? The Magic of We will reaffirm your faith in love." — Cedric Bixler-Zavala, The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In The Magic of We is a children's picture book by Danielle Anderson-Craig and illustrated by her friend and fellow teacher (they taught at same school!), Carly Dooling. It is a tender tale of blossoming friendship in which two children meet and are transported into a world where the ordinary becomes fantastic and the known becomes surreal as their shared experience creates unlimited imagination and play. The refrain "Being with you..." reverberates throughout the pages of detailed imagery, lush with color and imagination. It's a magical place that both kids and parents will recognize from their own experience of finding a kindred spirit. A first book for both Anderson-Craig and Dooling, The Magic of We combines the magic of music and the music of words to describe the amazing feeling of finding someone who "fits" you.

"I love great books about records: ripping yarns about everything that happened on the way to my stereo, with no minutiae too small to matter. The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Coloris the tale, in depth, behind every Blue single." – David Fricke, Rolling Stone The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color is 282 pages of behind-the-scenes stories, information, and interviews about the Jack White produced Blue Series singles. This hardcover book also includes a 7" single of unreleased Blue Series session songs by First Aid Kit and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) on black vinyl, a ten song sampler of Blue Series music curated by the book's editor Ben Blackwell, Foreword by award-winning Rolling Stone music journalist David Fricke, and exclusive interviews with Beck, Courtney Barnett, Stepehn Colbert, Insane Clown Posse, Wanda Jackson, Kate Pierson, Dexter Romweber, Jack White, Dwight Yoakam, and more.As the brainchild of Jack White, the Blue Series started in tandem with Third Man Records, White’s Nashville-based record label founded in 2009. Built on the simple premise of 7” 45rpm singles all recorded in the same studio, with the same producer (White), with photos taken in the same locale (Third Man Records’ onsite Blue Room) and manufactured at the same pressing plant (United Record Pressing), a stone’s throw from TMR’s offices) the resultant 40 singles impressively run the gamut of artists and styles. Whether it’s the wildly popular like Beck, the classic veteran Tom Jones, the character Stephen Colbert, the polarizing Insane Clown Posse, or previously unknown performers making their debut releases, the Blue Series is the perfect snapshot of what Third Man, and by extension Jack White, have focused on and championed for the past seven years.

"Part lyrical narrative, part bluesy riff, part schoolyard chant and part holy incantation" — New York TimesLucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" sonnets to explore the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid document, Lucy Negro Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare, and their real and imagined milieu. Inspired by the book, The Nashville Ballet will premiere “Lucy Negro Redux,” an original ballet conceived and choreographed by Artistic Director & CEO, Paul Vasterling, in February 2019 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. A collaboration of music, poetry and choreography, this contemporary ballet based on Caroline Randall Williams’ book of poetry of the same name is unique in process, content and format. The project uses dance and music to execute the author’s exploration of more than 160 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, and her arrival to a thesis that the “Dark Lady” and the “Fair Youth”—the subjects and inspiration of these sonnets—were undoubtedly a black woman and a young man lover. Ultimately, in experiencing Lucy through themes of love, otherness and equality, the narrator, and thus the audience, finds a powerful female voice.

Ascend Ascend was written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church. It is rooted in the jewish mystical tradition of merkabah literature, chronicling an ascent up the kabbalistic sefirot to witness the “chariot of god.” While traditional merkabah prose trends dry—focused on preparations for the journey while demurring to describe the experience itself—Ascend Ascend uses poetry to touch the ineffable. Equal parts Walt Whitman and Maggot Brain, this long poem documents the ecstatic destruction of the self.

A violently poetic English western inspired by the true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners and as wild as the moors on which it is set.Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by the charismatic King David Hartley, a man prone to violence and mystical visions, they rise to glory until the bloody murder of a government official brings them to the attention of the authorities. An English western, The Gallows Pole is a poetic and visceral telling of a secret history and a wild landscape."Myers’s exquisite prose sizzles with tension and the plot unfolds at a perfect pace. Readers will be mesmerized by this stunning page-turner of bleak violence, crisp historical detail, and vibrant characters." - Publishers Weekly

The stories collected in Nine Bar Blues weave emotion, spirit, and music, captivating readers with newfound alchemy and the murmurs of dark gods. Rooted in rhythm, threaded with magic, these tales encompass worlds that begin in river bottoms, pass through spectral gates, and end in distant uncharted worlds. These stories describe the pain that often accompanies the confines of sanctuary and the joy that is inextricably bound to the troubles of hard living. Nine Bar Blues sings a multiverse of fully realized worlds that readers will remember for ages to come and cherish from page to heart thumping, foot-stomping page.

The stories collected in Nine Bar Blues weave emotion, spirit, and music, captivating readers with newfound alchemy and the murmurs of dark gods. Rooted in rhythm, threaded with magic, these tales encompass worlds that begin in river bottoms, pass through spectral gates, and end in distant uncharted worlds. These stories describe the pain that often accompanies the confines of sanctuary and the joy that is inextricably bound to the troubles of hard living. Nine Bar Blues sings a multiverse of fully realized worlds that readers will remember for ages to come and cherish from page to heart thumping, foot-stomping page.

"e;Possibly the greatest-ever song about childhood BFFs."e; - Entertainment Weekly "e;We're Going to be Friends"e; is one of The White Stripes most enduring and loved songs. With the help of illustrator Elinor Blake, the perennial favorite feels right at home on the page as a children's book. Join Suzy Lee as she goes to school with her books and pens, looks for bugs, shows and tells, and finds a friend."e;Jack White has written a perfect story and Elino Blake's art is enchanting. It harkens back to 1940s Golden Books. Read it while listening to either Jack or Elinor sing the story. It's a sonic/optic treat."e; - John Kricfalusi, creator The Ren and Stimpy Show"e;It's back to school! Walk with Suzy Lee and her new friend. In hues of red, black and white with nods to classic animation and mid-century picture books, Elinor Blake creates an enchanted vision for Jack White's gentle story of new friendship."e;-Nina Crews, author The Neighborhood Mother Goose.In my favorite picture books text and art feel like they were conceived as one. This book has that quality. The text is the lyrics from the wonderful, now classic song "e;We're Going To Be Friends"e; by Jack White. In place of sound and music we have Elinor Blake's pictures. These images surprise and delight and have a genuine and rare timelessness, I can easily visualize this charming creation sitting snug between books by Robert McCloskey and Garth Williams on any bookshelf both past and present. - Tony Fucile, animator The Lion King, Finding Nemo

Salaam treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your preconceptions and leave you breathless with their beauty.Nalo Hopkinson, Author of the Nebula nominated novel The New Moon's ArmsKiini Ibura Salaams short stories (and the characters who inhabit them) are vital, fantastic in all senses of the word, audacious and tender.Kelly Link, author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated collection Get In Trouble In this eagerly-awaited collection, Kiini Ibura Salaam continues her exploration of the dark, the sensual, and the mysterious with fiction that disturbs, delights, and dazzles. The five stories and one novella collected in When the World Wounds examine the tumultuous nature of the human condition through such wild imaginings as sensual encounters with deer, escapism in a dystopic prison, and volcano women. In The Taming, a lupine creature is trapped by beasts whose nefarious nature is beyond their preys understanding. In Hemmies Calenture, a woman escaping enslavement is thrust into a war between gods. The Pull of the Wing is the prequel to Salaams wildly popular Of Wings, Nectar, and Ancestors trilogy. Because of the Bone Man transports readers to the desolate landscape of post-Katrina New Orleans and the struggle of the citys culture bearers to carry on.A welcome follow-up to Salaams award-winning Ancient, Ancient, When the World Wounds is perceptive and engaging as it examines our worlds callous and perilous landscapes while tickling the imagination and startling the senses.Kiini Ibura Salaam is a natural-born storyteller and a gorgeous writer who chooses her characters and words with the care and skill of a poet. Her stories are transformative, wise and vivid with the quality of fantasy and fable. I loved reading this!Sherre Rene Thomas, Editor of the World Fantasy Award winning anthology Dark Matter: Reading the BonesSalaams collection introduces readers to alternate worlds built around magic, sensuality, sexuality, and the search for emotional comfort, however tenuous. Salaams unusual settings and lonely characters will call to readers who hunger for sex, identity, or just a place to belong.Publishers WeeklyKiini Ibura Salaam's first collection Ancient, Ancient (Aqueduct Press, 2012) won the James Tiptree Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Lucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shakespeare's "e;Dark Lady"e; sonnets to explore the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid document, Lucy Negro Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare, and their real and imagined milieu. Inspired by the book, The Nashville Ballet will premiere "e;Lucy Negro Redux,"e; an original ballet conceived and choreographed by Artistic Director & CEO, Paul Vasterling, in February 2019.

Ascend Ascend was written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church. It is rooted in the jewish mystical tradition of merkabah literature, chronicling an ascent up the kabbalistic sefirot to witness the "e;chariot of god."e; While traditional merkabah prose trends dry-focused on preparations for the journey while demurring to describe the experience itself-Ascend Ascend uses poetry to touch the ineffable. Equal parts Walt Whitman and Maggot Brain, this long poem documents the ecstatic destruction of the self.

Take an adventure with Manny, Third Man’s storefront mascot, as he hangs out in our shop, takes in a show on Record Store Day, visits outer space, third man books’ bookshelves, the Third Man stores in Nashville and Detroit, Third Man’s photography studio, and learns how the (fastest) record was made! Draw Your own record label. Play Tic Tac Toe with stereo speakers. Play word search games looking for “Theremin,” Scopitone,” “Microphone,” “Plectrum” and more about music. The Third Man Records Coloring Book is a musical experience on the page for kids and adults of all ages. Not only are there plenty of pages to color, but fun activities like connect the dots, mazes, drawing, match-the-names, and more. Created by UK illustrator and graphic designer, Joe Snow, it’s kinda the best coloring book around !

Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop-except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced African American culture when dominant society abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. We're all familiar with the stars' stories, but It Came From Memphis runs with the the kids in that first rock and roll audience, where they befriended the older blues artists, the travails of blazing a rock and roll career path where one had not existed (nor did society welcome it), and the adventures-sometimes drug-fueled, often accidental, always pushing the envelope-that epitomize the rock and roll experience. Stars pass through-Elvis, Aretha, Jerry Lee-but the emphasis is on the singular achievements of Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. Music liberated that Memphis audience, and the world followed.

Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. Including work by Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water.